When you connect to this website, you send your IP address and sometimes some cookies. You may also give us personal identifying information, such as your name and contact information. All this data is used to securely provide you with the services that you request. We encourage you to review our privacy policy to make sure that you understand how your data is managed, and to contact us if you have any questions.View Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to the
North American SCRABBLE Player’s Association (“NASPA”).
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”)
applies to all NASPA activities, including its
website http://www.scrabbleplayers.org (the “Website”).
The Policy will be revised from time to time.
All revisions will be posted here.
You can see the history of the revisions of the Policy by
clicking on the “history” tab above.
By visiting the Website, you accept the policies described in the Policy,
and your continued use of the Website after revisions have been posted
constitutes your acceptance of the revisions.

Contents

Overview

NASPA and its members are tournament SCRABBLE players.
To maintain our rating system, we keep a record of the name under which you
wish to play, membership number and playing record.
To use any of our paid services, you must provide billing information,
which we retain only as long as is necessary.
You may provide additional profile information, which we will publish
and use for statistical purposes.
You may provide contact information, which we will use to contact
you, and to allow others to contact you with your permission.
Interacting with our website may also involve the implicit recording
of information in browser cookies and server logs.

How we collect and use your information

We collect and store personally identifiable information from you when you
use the Website, and when you participate in our sanctioned
SCRABBLE® activities. Stored information is kept on encrypted devices
in the United States and Canada, and is subject to the privacy laws of those
countries.

Here is an overview of the life cycle of each kind of information.
In order to comply with privacy requirements in some countries,
we have tried to strike a balance between clarity and completeness.
Please contact us if you would like us to provide more of either.

Provided by you when applying for membership or registering for an event

Identifies you so that we can provide requested services, such as reporting and tracking your tournament records and ratings

Anyone who visits the relevant parts of our website

Use a pseudonym when corresponding with us

Competitive record

Provided by your event directors

Lets us maintain your competitive rating and record

Do not compete

Profile text

Entered by you into our profile editor

Provides information that you wish to publish about yourself

Do not enter profile text

Contact information

Provided by you in your membership application

Lets us contact you in the course of providing services

Other players, directors and vendors to whom you explicitly give permission

Do not apply for membership

Purchase transaction number

Created when you make a purchase

Lets us fulfil and otherwise manage your purchases

Staff and service providers who fulfil purchases

Do not make purchases

Delivery address

Entered by you into our shopping system

Lets us ship your purchase to the address you specify

Staff and service providers who fulfil purchases

Personal communications

Sent by or to you

Lets us respond to your service requests

Staff and service providers involved in communicating and fulfilling service requests

Do not communicate with us

Billing information

We do not store billing information on our website

Regarding your contact information in particular, whose use may be governed

by other legislation:

If you have provided contact information, we may use it to contact you. You must provide contact information when you first become a member, so that we can confirm your membership status to you. You may delete this contact information, but if you do so you are responsible for visiting the Website to learn of any changes to your membership, this Policy or any other NASPA policies. If you give us permission to include you in mass mailings, we will. If you have given us permission to provide it to others, we may do so.

Use of the Website by children

The Website is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age,
nor do we knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you
are under 13 and a NASPA member, you must have your parent or guardian
interact with the Website for you, and you must not do so yourself
directly.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about the Policy, are uncertain what information
is in your personal profile or how to modify or delete it, please
email us at info@scrabbleplayers.org.